Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML (Programmer to Programmer) by Thiru Thangarathinam

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The foundation for most Web services, XML can also be used with ASP.NET to display data from an infinite variety of sources in a Web site
After covering the basics, the book explores the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET 2.0
Two major case studies address issues such as reading and writing XML data, XML data validation, transforming XML Data with XSLT, SQL Server XML integration, XML support in ADO.NET, and XML Web Services
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #46796 in Books
Published on: 2006-01-18
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
566 pages
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The foundation for most Web services, XML can also be used with ASP.NET to display data from an infinite variety of sources in a Web site After covering the basics, the book explores the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET 2.0 Two major case studies address issues such as reading and writing XML data, XML data validation, transforming XML Data with XSLT, SQL Server XML integration, XML support in ADO.NET, and XML Web Services

From the Back Cover

You'll also learn more about SQL Server 2005 XML features, XML serialization, and XML Web services. You'll see how XML can be used to increase application efficiency and reach. Two helpful real-life case studies used throughout the book demonstrate the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET.

What you will learn from this book
How to read and write XML data
Advanced Web service concepts such as SOAP headers and extensions
Using XmlSerializer to serialize XML documents as XML data
Techniques to build programs or scripts that create, read, and update settings in web.config and machine.config files
How to create an XSD schema in Visual Studio® 2005
Tips on working with typed and untyped data type columns
How to get a head start with Microsoft's new "Atlas" Ajax technology for ASP.NET and XML

Who this book is for

This book is for intermediate to experienced programmers who are already familiar with XML and want to gain a clear understanding of ASP.NET development. Some basic knowledge of C# is necessary.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

About the Author
Thiru Thangarathinam works for Intel Corporation in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an MCAD (Microsoft Certified Application Developer) and specializes in architecting and building Distributed N-Tier applications using ASP.NET, Visual C#.NET, VB.NET, ADO.NET, and SQL Server 2000. He has co-authored a number of books for Wrox Press in .NET technologies. Thiru is also a regular contributor to print and online magazines such as Visual Studio Magazine, Visual Studio .NET Professional, SQL Server Professional, DevX, ASPToday.com, 15seconds.com, and Developer.com. At Intel, he is part of the team that is focused on developing the Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented Architectures for Intel. He can be reached at thiru.thangarathinam@intel.com.
Customer Reviews

PoloU
This is an excelent book. The section about MsSQL server and XML is excelent. I highly recommended

Absolutely fantastic book - well worth the money!
Thiru Thangarathinam is one of the few authors out there who truly know how to teach and convey the knowledge they are presenting. The manner in which he approaches and expounds a topic should be formulated and used in all books. Most books these days simply show how to do the simplest of tasks and never provide real world scenarios. But guess what, in the real world your tasks are never that simple.

Thiru does a great job in not only showing "how to" but also provides best practice tips so that you know "when to", "when not to", "when you do be sure to". These are the things I need to know in the real world. Without a doubt this was one of the best technical books I have read in a while. I will definitely buy any future books that he authors. Glad to see he's a fellow Phoenician also!

Great For ASP.NET and its XML Features
This is an excellent book covering the XML features of ASP.NET. It is very professional but, not for any beginner. It has the first 2 chapters which pretty much cover the basics but, throughout the rest of the book you need to know what you are doing. It is very detailed but is not really "step-by-step" like 1-2-3...It will walk you through how to do something through reading; so if your not one of those people who don't like to read, I wouldnt fully recommend this book to you. It shows a many screenshots in there so it makes it fairly simple to follow along. The book has almost 500 pages that are completely dedicated to the XML features of ASP.NET. If you are willing to take out the reading glasses and read a little bit. Overall, its an outstanding book!

Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (Wrox Professional Guides) by Stefan Schackow

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Experienced developers who are looking to create reliably secure sites with ASP.NET 2.0 will find that Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management covers a broad range of security features including developing in partial trust, forms authentication, and securing configuration. The book offers detailed information on every major area of ASP.NET security you’ll encounter when developing Web applications.

You’ll see how ASP.NET 2.0 version contains many new built-in security functions compared to ASP.NET 1.x such as Membership and Role Manager, and you’ll learn how you can extend or modify various features. The book begins with two chapters that walk you through the processing ASP.NET 2.0 performs during a web request and the security processing for each request, followed by a detailed explanation of ASP.NET Trust Levels.

With this understanding of security in place, you can then begin working through the following chapters on configuring system security, forms authentication, and integrating ASP.NET security with classic ASP including integrating Membership and Role Manager with classic ASP. The chapter on session state looks at the limitations of cookieless session identifiers, methods for heading off session denial of service attacks, and how session state is affected by trust level. After the chapter explaining the provider model architecture in ASP.NET 2.0 and how it is useful for writing custom security providers you go to the MembershipProvider class and configuring the two default providers in the Membership feature, SqlMembershipProvider and ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider. You'll see how to use RoleManager to make it easy to associate users with roles and perform checks declaratively and in code and wrap up working with three providers for RoleProvider – WindowsTokenRoleProvider, SqlRoleProvider, and AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider (to work with Authorization Manager or AzMan).

This book is also available as part of the 5-book ASP.NET 2.0 Wrox Box (ISBN: 0-470-11757-5). This 5-book set includes:
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (ISBN: 0-470-04178-1)
ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (ISBN: 0764584642 )
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (ISBN: 0764596985)
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development (ISBN: 0471793507)
ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips (ISBN: 0764597663)
CD-ROM with more than 1000 pages of bonus chapters from 15 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server(TM) 2005 Wrox books
DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft(r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Professional Edition
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #13596 in Books
Published on: 2006-01-31
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
648 pages
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Now in its second version, ASP.NET has over one million programmers, and they all need to know how to use the new, tighter security model Helps programmers build better sites, control user access, and interface securely with other parts of the Microsoft platform, such as Windows Server, Active Directory, LDAP, and SQL Server 2005 Explains in depth all the security and user management functionality of ASP.NET 2.0, including many new built-in security functions that free the developer from hand-coding

From the Back Cover
ASP.Net security covers a broad range of subjects. Concepts such as Web security features, developing in partial trust, forms authentication, and securing configuration - just to name a few p are all integral components to helping developers ensure reliable security. Addressing the ASP.NET security features from the developer's point of view, this book offers detailed information on very major area of ASP.NET security that you'll encounter when developing Web applications.

You'll see how the 2.0 version contains many new built-in security functions, such as Membership and Role Manager, and you'll learn how you can extend or modify various features. As you work through this book, you'll gain a solid understanding of the many security features in ASP.NET 2.0.

What you will learn from this book
The security professing that is performed for each HTTP request
What ASP.NET trust levels are and how they work to provide secure environments
The new options for locking down and protecting configuration sections
New security features for forms authentication and session state
Ways to write your own custom provider-based features
How to extend Membership with password histories and custom password encryption
How to use Active Directory with the new Membership and Role Manager features

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced developers who are looking to master the new security features of ASP.NET 2.0, as well as more advanced techniques for extending ASP.NET 2.0 security.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

About the Author
Stefan Schackow is a Program Manager on the Web Platform and Tools Team at Microsoft working on the new application services stack in Visual Studio 2005. He owns the Membership, Role Manager, Profile, Personalization and Site Navigation features in ASP.NET 2.0. He also works on features for Microsoft's ASP.NET hosting solution. He is a frequent speaker at Microsoft developer conferences. Prior to joining the ASP.NET team Stefan worked as an application development consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) with enterprise customers for four years.
Customer Reviews

Thorough, excellent writing
I bought this book because I needed the information for a project that I am currently engaged in. The information contained within was immediately relevant in shaping the solution design. It gave me the how and the why to architect a solid, yet flexible solution.

This text is not a how-to for a beginner. It is also not light reading. It is a dense book; lots of information crammed into it. You have to bring your experience to this book for the full weight of the teaching to come to bear. I highly recommend it to application architects and development team leads.

Not useful
This book is like those instruction you will want to give to your team members if you are the leader, but having to keep reading that for close to 600 pages!
Yes, the target is clearly not defined and if you want to get a work done by reading this book, please forget it.
If you implemented membership and roles, and seeking some extra advice may be you might find it useful. It does not really explain the various systems, illustrating each well enough.
I opened Forms Authetication, hoping to learn how to implement it in my project, just to read more than a page of people creating 50 years cookie. Is 2 or 3 lines of sentenses not enough to let someone know about 50 years cookie?

It's about how things work under the covers
I bought this book for help with over-riding the membership providers and possible the profile providers. What I got was a full on introduction to how things really work under the covers. Didn't really help me with my original intention, but certainly improved my understanding of security in ASP.Net 2.0.

Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals by Shaun Walker

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Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals

DotNetNuke, the popular ASP.NET open source application, is sweeping through the ranks of ASP.NET and Web developers. Whether you've never programmed your own Web site before or you are an experienced ASP.NET developer, you'll find DotNetNuke and this book have something to offer you. You'll get started with invaluable hands-on insight for installing DotNetNuke on the server and then move on to developing and administering portals created with DotNetNuke.

Written by the creator and programmers of the DotNetNuke project, the book discusses operating a DotNetNuke portal. You'll see how DotNetNuke gives you a flexible architecture for rapidly developing Web applications and you'll find ways to extend the portal framework by developing modules that plug into DotNetNuke. Step-by-step instructions to administer DotNetNuke in various real-world scenarios will help you save time developing your own DotNetNuke ASP.NET sites.

What you will learn from this book
* How to easily develop a dynamic content managed Web site
* Management of user membership and permissions
* Other features you can add to a DotNetNuke site including discussion forums, RSS feeds, calendars, and more
* How to instantly change your Web site user interface with skins
* Techniques for hosting multiple Web sites from a single account with the multiple portal capability

Who this book is for

Web developers or administrators who have never used ASP or ASP.NET can use this book to create their first ASP.NET portal site with no programming skill required. Experienced ASP.NET developers can use this to create ASP.NET sites quickly and efficiently using DotNetNuke.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education for new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #110579 in Books
Published on: 2005-06-10
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
456 pages
Editorial Reviews

Review
"I would recommend this book as a must buy to anyone who develops with or for the DotNetNuke framework." (www.vbug.net, 8th September 2005)

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"* This hands-on guide covers various real-world scenarios for developing and administering portals created with DotNet Nuke, the ASP.NET-based solution for quick and efficient building of Microsoft ASP.NET Web sites
* Written by the creator and programmers of the DotNetNuke project
* Features step-by-step instructions on administering DotNetNuke and applying it in various real-world situations
* Discusses some of the more common issues that developers are likely to face when setting up DotNetNuke, such as Webfarms, capacity planning, and databases
* Covers the new DotNetNuke version 3.0 and examines key differences between it and the older 2.4 release"

From the Back Cover
Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals

DotNetNuke, the popular ASP.NET open source application, is sweeping through the ranks of ASP.NET and Web developers. Whether you've never programmed your own Web site before or you are an experienced ASP.NET developer, you'll find DotNetNuke and this book have something to offer you. You'll get started with invaluable hands-on insight for installing DotNetNuke on the server and then move on to developing and administering portals created with DotNetNuke.

Written by the creator and programmers of the DotNetNuke project, the book discusses operating a DotNetNuke portal. You'll see how DotNetNuke gives you a flexible architecture for rapidly developing Web applications and you'll find ways to extend the portal framework by developing modules that plug into DotNetNuke. Step-by-step instructions to administer DotNetNuke in various real-world scenarios will help you save time developing your own DotNetNuke ASP.NET sites.

What you will learn from this book
How to easily develop a dynamic content managed Web site
Management of user membership and permissions
Other features you can add to a DotNetNuke site including discussion forums, RSS feeds, calendars, and more
How to instantly change your Web site user interface with skins
Techniques for hosting multiple Web sites from a single account with the multiple portal capability

Who this book is for

Web developers or administrators who have never used ASP or ASP.NET can use this book to create their first ASP.NET portal site with no programming skill required. Experienced ASP.NET developers can use this to create ASP.NET sites quickly and efficiently using DotNetNuke.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education for new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
Customer Reviews

Not really for Developers
An interesting enough background history of DNN with a bit of technical information thrown in and put into context. But don't buy this book if you expect it to help you build your own modules.

Disappointed
If you are hoping to get help installing DotNetNike you will be disappointed in this book.

not enough for anybody
hard to read, not complete, messy but still something that brings you forward when you have no access to other resources.
Still compared with what you can download for free from the DNN homepage (especially the training videos) this book is a waste of money and time for the novice as well as for the experienced professional.